Deep in the bowels of Orlando International Airport is a small storage room crammed with plastic bins filled with power tools, hammers, samurai swords, meat cleavers and machetes. The seized items, which also include pocketknives, handguns and baseball bats, are all taken from travelers who apparently don't know or care that they are not allowed to carry them on commercial jets. Transportation Security Administration officers confiscate a ton or more of contraband — officially called "voluntary abandoned property" — every six weeks at the airport. Robert Urmos, a supervisory transportation-security officer, said he calls a disposal company when the bins begin...

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